Tutorial: Knitting on a Cabled Edge

This tutorial will walk you through knitting on the cabled edge of my New Kid Cardigan. This is far from the only way to knit on and edge.  I chose it because it works well with the garter stitch and cable used in this pattern.  If you are using this method for a different project you might want to try knitting an edge onto your swatch to see if you like how the join looks before you begin.

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Tutorial: Joining the thumb to top-down mitts

My Badlands Mitts are knit top-down in order to use up every bit of your leftover yarn. The thumbs are knit separately and later joined to the body of the hand in the same manner that you would join the sleeves of a raglan or yoked sweater when knitting from the bottom-up.  This tutorial will walk you through joining the thumb and hand of a top-down fingerless mitt. 

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